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Advancing the “Colorado Graduates” Agenda:
Understanding the Dropout Problem and Mobilizing to Meet the Graduation Challenge
This research focused first on the statewide distribution of dropouts, and then on five of the districts having some of the largest number of dropouts, using both aggregate school level data from the Colorado Department of Education and individual level data from each of the five districts. In short, this report presents several keys to addressing Colorado’s graduation challenge:
- We can locate where the dropout problem is concentrated in the state (by districts and schools).
- We can identify which students are unlikely to graduate without interventions (through routinely collected district
administrative data).
- We have interventions that can keep students on track to on-time graduation.
Martha Abele Mac Iver, Robert Balfanz, Vaughan Byrnes
Download the Executive Summary here and the Full Report here.
Download the Colorado Graduates Toolkit here.
Mid-Atlantic Equity Center Announces:
Beyond the Indicators
An Integrated School-Level Approach to
Dropout Prevention -
Beyond the Indicators provides an integrated framework that schools and districts can use to build a foundation to prevent students from dropping out. Based on a tiered public health model, this framework provides universal and schoolwide practices designed to produce high attendance, positive behavior, and successful academic achievement for the majority of students. It includes implementing early warning systems that identify students at risk of dropping out, and tiered interventions to insure that struggling students stay on track to graduate.
This report (August 2009) summarizes the research on why students drop out of school, explains the research implications for how to create an integrated dropout prevention strategy, and highlights an innovative pilot project that yielded results in a matter of months—a how-to example that works.
Martha Abele Mac Iver and Douglas J. Mac Iver
Report available on the Mid Atlantic Equity Center Website here.
Paper & PowerPoint
National Middle School Association announces:
Putting Middle Grades Students on the Path to Graduation
"Putting Middle Grades Students on the Graduation Path: A Policy and Practice Brief” is based on more than a decade of research and development work at the Center for the Social Organization of Schools (CSOS) at Johns Hopkins University as well as direct field experience in more than 30 middle schools implementing comprehensive reform and a long-standing collaboration with the Philadelphia Education Fund and several middle schools that serve high-poverty populations in Philadelphia. Our research and fieldwork illuminate key policy and practice implications of the role the middle grades play in achieving our national goal of graduating all students from high school prepared for college, career, and civic life.
See the Executive Summary or Download the full Policy and Practice Brief.